Professional Logger
Hybrid-based
ONET: 45-4021.00
2
Years
28
Skills
288h
Related instructions
4000h
On-the-job training
Classroom instruction topics
- Certified Professional Logger
- Module 1 - First Aid
- Module 1 - Defensive Driving
- Module 1 - Logging Techniques
- Module 1 - Safety in the Woods
- Module 1 - Fire Control and Suppression
- Module 2 - High Lead Technique
- Module 2 - Skidder Operation
- Module 2 - Tractor / Front End Loader Operation
- Module 2 - Scaling, Utilization, Measurements
- Module 3 - Tree Selection
- Module 3 - Reforestation
- Module 3 - Road Building
- Module 4 - Application of Skills
On-the-job training
- Module 1
- General logging practice
- Understands and uses terminology common to the practice of wood harvesting
- Application of timber stand improvement practices
- Tree planting and reforestation
- Understands and applies safe choker setter practices
- Inspects equipment for safety prior to use and performs necessary basic maintenance tasks
- Safety practices - personnel, site, equipment
- Chainsaw operation and maintenance
- Clear brush from work areas and escape routes, cut saplings and other trees from direction of falls using axes, chainsaws, or bulldozers
- Tag unsafe trees with high-visibility ribbons
- Collects data as needed and submits repots
- Understands basic team operations
- Module 2
- Skidder operator
- Loader operations
- Scaling, utilizations, and measurements
- Tree feller / tree bucker operations
- Control/ operate hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees
- Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards
- Measure felled trees and cut them into specified log lengths, using chainsaws and axes
- Module 3
- Advanced general logging practice
- Control the direction of a tree's fall by scoring cutting lines with axes, sawing undercuts along scored lines with chainsaws, knocking slabs from cuts with single-bit axes, and driving wedges
- Principles of road building
- Drive tractors for the purpose of building or repairing logging and skid roads
- Operates, maintains, and performs small repairs / CAT and front-end loader
- Module 4
- Tree feller
- Mobile Yard operator
- Drive and maneuver mechanical equipment and tree harvesters to shear the tops off of trees, cut and limb the trees, and cut the logs into desired lengths
- Determine forestry techniques or methods best suited to site
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